Lipids
Lipids are a group of chemicals that contain fats, waxes, and steroids. Lipids are essential for many biological processes, such as energy storage, cell membrane structure, and hormone production.
Waxes consist mainly of esters, which are formed through the reaction between a fatty acid and a long-chain alcohol. This ester linkage is the functional group present in waxes.
Things such as waxes and pigment chemicals.
The materials of the candle as waxes, paraffin.
Several waxes are produced by animals and plants, as beeswax and other; but many types of waxes (this is a large class of organic chemicals called waxes) are extracted from petroleum - but petroleum is also a natural product ! Also true artificial waxes exist, obtained from polyethylene.
A phospholipid is an organic compound that contains a phosphare group in the molecule and is a fatty acid or derivative of a fatty acid. Lipids are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. They include many natural oils, waxes, and steroids.
Several waxes are produced by animals and plants, as beeswax and other; but many types of waxes (this is a large class of organic chemicals called waxes) are extracted from petroleum - but petroleum is also a natural product ! Also true artificial waxes exist, obtained from polyethylene.
Waxes
Waxes are a group of lipids that form stiff, water-repellent materials. They are made up of long-chain fatty acids and long-chain alcohols, and are commonly found in plant cuticles and animal skin to provide protection from water loss.
Fats, steroids, and waxes are all types of lipids, which are hydrophobic organic molecules. They share a similar chemical structure characterized by long hydrocarbon chains or rings, contributing to their insolubility in water. These lipids play various roles in biological systems, including energy storage, cellular signaling, and protective coatings. Additionally, they are important components of cell membranes and contribute to the structural integrity of cells.
Exact chemical mixtures or ratios of chemicals depend on the type of wax, whether they be animal waxes, vegetable waxes, mineral waxes, petroleum waxes, or synthetic waxes. Natural waxes such as animal waxes tend to have a greater variation in wax composition while synthetic waxes generally have less. Chemically, a wax is a type of lipid that may contain a wide variety of long-chain alkanes, esters, polyesters and hydroxy esters of long-chain primary alcohols and fatty acids. They are usually distinguished from fats by the lack of triglyceride esters of glycerin (propan-1,2,3-triol) and three fatty acids. In addition to the esters that contribute to the high melting point and hardness of carnauba wax, the epicuticular waxes of plants are mixtures of substituted long-chain aliphatic hydrocarbons, containing alkanes, fatty acids, primary and secondary alcohols, diols, ketones, aldehydes. Paraffin waxes are hydrocarbons, mixtures of alkanes usually in a homologous series of chain lengths.
u find waxes in nature by finding them